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• “The Random Lunchtime SMS Romance”

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-05 • ( 6 )

  Cheers to whoozqueen, who has agreed to let me copy this SMS conversation here. I have edited it to change the names only. Apparently, you can’t even take a wrong number SMS these days without getting hit on. I can’t… Read More ›

• I See A Great Need.

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-04 • ( 3 )

  [Image from here. Cap by me.]

• Never too early to start your fetus wearing a tinfoil colander

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-02 • ( 2 )

  Today’s Useless Baby Gear: Mummywraps! Planning your family, or baby already on the way? You want the best for your child, but how can you protect your precious bundle of joy against the potentially harmful electrosmog that swirls invisibly around… Read More ›

• Fat-hater wankstain du jour

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-02 • ( 4 )

  Big Fat Deal reports on a chappie who thinks it’s a Splendid! Shiny! New! Activist! Idea! to start printing up and handing out Fat Tickets. He wants the world to start handing out these tickets, with the revelatory message “You’re… Read More ›

• Just a spoonful of polyphenols…

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-02 • ( 6 )

  [Image from Milk And Cookies. Check out her other recipes while you’re there, especially the orange and date tart.] The latest in chronic fatigue syndrome symptom control? 45 grams of dark chocolate a day. The effect was small, but the… Read More ›

• Kate Harding plug

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-01 • ( 3 )

  Kate Harding, one face of the “obesity crisis”. I haven’t done any Kate Harding plugs for a while, and that’s been a bit remiss of me. Kate has a delightful commentariat, no doubt through her excellently executed comments policy, and… Read More ›

• Sandilands, you’re a prat.

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-30 • ( 4 )

  [image credit: news.com.au, capped by me.] So shock-jock Kyle Sandilands is a complete pillock. We all know that. He’s always been a pillock, he’s not funny, he’s a bigoted, nasty little twit. Sadly, he’s also a judge on Australian Idol,… Read More ›

• Calling for votes

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-30 • ( 2 )

  Anyone want some more Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment? The choices are here. Requests made previously have included: Margie in Austin, Texas: “The Change of Life, or Menopause”. Callie & kristi: “Sex Physiology and Hygiene” PortlyDyke: “On The Threshold of… Read More ›

• Things not to do.

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-30 • ( 3 )

  I just remembered something that really, really pissed me off over four years ago, and that I never really complained properly about at the time. I was a subject in a breastfeeding research lab for about a year, in a… Read More ›

• Babies, body fluids and the “bizarre”

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-30 • ( 2 )

  [image from the Daily Mail] Mostly, I just wanted to blog this story because I love this photo. Nadia is on the left. But there is stuff to say, too. Melissa at Shakesville has been blogging about the way in… Read More ›